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Sunday, September 4, 2016

Meeting with President of China Xi Jinping

The two
presidents discussed the current state of bilateral relations,
prospects for developing cooperation, and current international
and regional issues.

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Beginning
of meeting with President of the People’s Republic of China
Xi Jinping

President
of China Xi Jinping(retranslated):
It is a great pleasure to receive my old friend President Putin
and all of the Russian delegation here in Hangzhou.
I wish you a warm welcome to the eleventh G20 summit.

As one
of the key global economies and leading countries with
established markets, Russia plays a big part in promoting health
and stable global economic development and developing global economic
governance.

Russia
successfully hosted the G20
summit in September 2013. I am sure that your participation will help
us to achieve positive results at this summit too.

You made
a successful visit to China
in June, when we celebrated the 15th anniversary
of our major bilateral treaty [on friendship, good neighbourliness
and cooperation], signed and announced three important joint
statements and witnessed the signing of around 30 bilateral
cooperation agreements.

This clearly
demonstrates our mutual commitment to deepen our comprehensive partnership
and cooperation, showed in full measure that our countries share
common positions on current international and regional issues,
and clearly stated our common call to support global strategic
stability and work for peace and security
in the world.

This is
exceptionally important in today’s complex and fast-changing world.

Thank you.

President
of Russia Vladimir Putin: President Xi Jinping, friends,

We celebrated
the 15th anniversary of our friendship treaty this
year and, during my visit to China in June, discussed
in detail all different areas of our cooperation.

Our relations are
developing just as well as we hoped. There are problems linked
to the general global economic development situation, but there are
positive aspects too. Our exports are growing overall, including in such
important areas as exports of vehicles and equipment. We are
grateful to you for the close attention the Chinese
government gives to this work. This is improving our export and mutual
trade situation in general. Of course, we do still have a lot
of work to do, but I am confident that we are
on the right track.

I just met
in Vladivostok with
members of the Chinese business community. Overall, our Chinese
partners are happy with the way we are building relations
on the practical level, and I am pleased to hear that
the political efforts we are making at the top are producing
results for those who are engaged in the real economy
and are at work on the ground in this area.

We will continue
pursuing our contacts at the political, parliamentary and public
levels. We have youth organisations working together, tourism exchanges,
and we continue our cultural cooperation.

We certainly wish
our Chinese friends and you personally success with holding this G20
summit. We see how much effort you have put into preparing this big event. We
support the main agenda you have set for this summit and it will
be our pleasure to take part in the discussions.

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